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PBT Monthly Tag with ReviewsJanuary Thriller -
February Survival -
March Journalism -
April Science Fiction - (Stranger in a Strange Land)
May Comedy -
June Suspense -
July Southern -
August Witches
September Psychological - (Crime and Punishment; You; We Need to Talk About Kevin)
October Animals -
November Books to Screen -
December International - (Persepolis; Like Water for Chocolate; Homegoing)
Read 101 Books 35,000 PagesJanuary
1. Marley By Jon Clinch 304 pgs.
2. *The Boy On the Bridge By M.R. Carey 392 pgs.
3. Doomsday Book By Connie Willis 578 pgs.
4. Wham! George & Me By Andrew Ridgeley 297 pgs.
5. *The Red Tent By Anita Diamant 336 pgs.
6. A Longer Fall By Charlaine Harris 290 pgs.
7. The Outsider By Stephen King 561 pgs.
8. Thanksgiving By Melanie Kirkpatrick 272 pgs.
Total - 3030
February
9. #Can You Feel This? By Julie Orringer 32 pgs.
10. # Everything My Mother Taught Me By Alice Hoffman 28 pgs.
11. * The Goldfinch By Donna Tartt 771 pgs.
12. # To Say Nothing Of The Dog By Connie Willis 512 pgs.
13. # Dune By Frank Herbert 688 pgs.
14. * Blood of Elves By Andrzej Sapkowski 398 pgs.
Total - 2429
March
15. Unwind By Neal Shusterman 337 pgs.
16. Over the Top By Jonathan Van Ness 276 pgs.
17. * The Silent Patient By Alex Michaelides 325 pgs.
18. You Never Forget Your First By Alexis Coe 304 pgs.
19. * The Water Dancer By Ta-Nehisi Coates 403 pgs.
20. American Dirt By Jeanine Cummins 400 pgs.
Total - 2045
April
21. * Mr. Mercedes By Stephen King 437 pgs.
22. So You've Been Publicly Shamed By Jon Ronson 290 pgs.
Total - 727
May
23. * Belgravia By Julian Fellowes 402 pgs.
24. # Normal People By Sally Rooney 273 pgs.
Total - 675
June
25. # My Dark Vanessa By Kate Elizabeth Russell 384 pgs.
26. * A Breath of Snow and Ashes Diana Gabaldon 993 pgs.
27. # Joy At Work By Marie Kondo 244 pgs.
Total - 1621
July
28. *One Thousand White Women By Jim Fergus 434 pgs.
29. #The Glass Hotel By Emily St. John Mandel 302 pgs.
30 # The Hate U Give By Angie Thomas 444 pgs.
31. *The Southern Book Club's Guide To Slaying Vampires By Grady Hendrix 400 pgs.
32. # A Little Life By Hanya Yanagihara 720 pgs.
33. # Writers & Lovers By Lily King 320 pgs.
34. Murder in the Bayou By Ethan Brown 224 pgs.
35. * Mexican Gothic By Silvia Moreno-Garcia 320 pgs.
Total - 3164
August
36. The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate 307 pgs.
37. # Gmorning, Gnight! By Lin-Manuel Miranda 224 pgs.
38. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes By Suzanne Collins 517pgs.
39. # Overground Railroad By Candacy A. Taylor 360 pgs.
40. * The Shadow of the Wind By Carlos Ruiz Zafon 487 pgs.
41. # Devolution By Max Brooks 286 pgs.
42. # Three Women By Lisa Taddeo 304 pgs.
43 # Gilead By Marilynne Robinson 247 pgs.
Total - 2732
September
44. #The Year of the Witching 368 pgs.
45. #Notes on a Silencing By Lacy Crawford 400 pgs.
46. #The Sun Down Motel By Simone St. James 327 pgs.
47. #Hamnett By Maggie O'Farrell 372 pgs.
48. #Utopia Avenue By David Mitchell 574 pgs.
49. *Barkskins By Annie Proulx 717 pgs.
50. *Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak 464 pgs.
Total - 3222
October
51. Rust By Eliese Colette Goldbach 320 pgs.
52. *An Echo In The Bone By Diana Gabaldon 1149 pgs.
53. *Dash and Lily's Book of Dares By Rachel Cohn and David Levithan 260 pgs.
54. Midnight Sun By Stephenie Meyer 662 pgs.
55. Caste By Isabel Wilkerson 496 pgs.
56. *Written in my Own Heart's Blood By Diana Gabaldon 825 pgs.
57. *The Outsiders By S.E. Hinton 192 pgs.
58. *The Art of Racing In The Rain By Garth Stein 321 pgs.
Total - 4225
Novemeber
59. *Little Women By Louisa May Alcott 449 pgs.
60. #The Only Good Indians By Stephen Graham Jones 310 pgs.
61. *Catch 22 By Joseph Heller 453 pgs.
62. * The Shack By William Paul Young 294 pgs.
Total - 1506
December
63. # The Deal of a Lifetime By Fredrik Backman 65 pgs.
64. # Ready Player Two By Ernest Cline 370 pgs.
65. # The Midnight Library By Matt Haig 288 pgs.
Total - 723
Grand Total - 26099
Trim The TBR1. Small Gods By Terry Prachett
2. The Elusive Flame By Kathleen Woodiweis
3. The Last American Vampire By Seth Grahame-Smith
4. Books Fred Bought
5. Heaven Below By Joan Lehmann
6. Dog Stars By Peter Heller
7. Blind Assassin By Margaret Atwood
8. The Lost Symbol By Dan Brown
9. Bono : In Conversation With Michka Assayas By Bono
10. Widow Of The South By Robert Hicks
11. Loving Frank By Nancy Horan
12. The Palace By Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
13. Slammerkin By Emma Donoghue
14. Horns By Joe Hill
15. The Musuem of Extraordinary Things By Alice Hoffman
16.
Classics
16. Daughter of Fortune By Isabell Allende
17. The Counte Of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
18. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
19. Sherlock Holmes By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
20. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow By Washington Irving
21. Amistad By David Pesci
Long Books
22. Threat From The Sea By Mel Odom
23. David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
24. Don't Know Much About The Bible By Kenneth C. Davis
25. Mary Chestnut's Civil War By Mary Boykin Miller Chestnut
26. Edgar Sawtelle By David Wroblewski
27. London By Edward Rutherford
28. Under The Dome By Steven King
29. Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
30. The Witching Hour By Anne Rice
31. The Princes Of Ireland By Edward Rutherford
32. John Adams By David Mccullough
33. The Gormenghast Novels By Mervyn Peake
34. Centennial By James Michener
35. The Convenant By James Michener
36. House OF Leaves by Mark Danielewski
37. Roots By Alex Haley
Last Year Leftovers1. In One Person By John Irving
2. Beauty's Kingdom By A.N. Roguelaure
3. Night Film By Marisha Pessl
4. The Priory of the Orange Tree By Samantha Shannon
5. Inferno By Dan Brown
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8. The Museum Of Extraordinary Things By Alice Hoffman
9. Missoula By Jon Krakauer
10. 1001 Nights By Christopher Rice
11. Etta and Otto and Russell and James By Emma Hooper
12. Yellow Brick War - Danielle Paige
13. The Seeker - Stephenie Meyer
14. Glory Over Everything By Kathleen Grissom
15. Two If By Sea By Jacquelyn Mitchard
16. The Children's Crusade By Ann Packer
17. Everyone Brave Is Forgiven By Chris Cleave
18. The Watchmaker of Filigree Street By Natasha Pulley
19. Maestra By L.S. Hilton
20. True Crimes A Family Album By Kathryn Harrison
21. The Atomic Weight of Love By Elizabeth J. Church
22.
23. Lincoln in the Bardo By George Saunders
24. Difficult Women By Roxanne Gay
25. The Child By Fiona Barton
26. The Roanoke Girls By Amy Engel
27. The Lost City of the Monkey God By Douglas Preston
28. Wonderland By Steven Johnson
29. The Underworld By Kevin Canty
30. All Our Wrong Todays By Elan Mastai
31. The River at Night By Erica Ferencik
32. Little Deaths By Emma Flint
33. A Separation By Katie Kitamura
34. A Woman Looking At Men Looking At Women By Siri Hustvedt
35. The Private Lives of Tudors By Tracy Borman
36. History of Wolves By Emily Fridlund (own)
37. Six Four By Hideo Yokoyama
38. Heather the Totality By Matthew Weiner
39. See What I Have Done By Sarah Schmidt
40. The H Spot By Jill Filopovic
41.
42. Snow Flower And The Secret Fan
43. Remarkable Creatures
44. The Eyre Affair
45. Out of Africa By Isak Denisen
46. The Boys of Summer By Roger Kahn
47. Endurance By Alfred Lansing
48. The Autobiography of Malcolm X By Alex Haley, Malcolm X
49. The Snow Leopard By Peter Matthiessen
50. Reading Lolita In Tehran By Azar Nafisi
51. The Black Count By Tom Reiss
52. The Girls Of Atomic City By Denise Kiernan
53. Roots By Alex Haley
54. Children of Blood and Bone By Tomi Adeyem
55. Darwin Comes To Town By Menno Schilthuizen
56. Varina By Charles Frazier
57. The Trauma Cleaner By Sarah Krasnostein
58. The Monk Of Mokha By Dave Eggers
59. Noir By Christopher Moore
60. The Toymakers By Robert Dinsdale
61. GrIst Mill Road By Christopher J. Yates
62. Bridge of Clay Markus Zusak
63. Us Against You By Frederik Backman
64. Love and Ruin By Paula McLain
65. Pops by Michael Chabon
66. The Kiss Quotient By Helen Hoang
67. Latro In The Mist By Gene Wolfe
68. Bring Up the Bodies By Hilary Mantel
2020
1. The Seven Sisters By Neil Gaiman
2.
3. Empire of the Vampire By Jay Kristoff - NOT UNTIL SEPT 2021
4. The Mirror and the Light By Hilary Mantel
5. The Iron Season By Helene Wecker
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7.
8.
9.
10.
11. Martha Stewart's Organizing By Martha Stewart - WILL PURCHASE IN FUTURE
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13.
14.
15, The Splendid and the Vile By Erik Larson
16.
17.
18. Why We Can't Sleep By Ada Calhoun
19.
20.
21. The Pull of The Stars By Emma Donoghue
22. Magic Lessons By Alice Hoffman
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24.
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27.
28.
29. The Eighth Life By Nino Haratischwili
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35. Troubled Blood By Robert Galbraith
36. A Promised Land By Barak Obama
37. Clanlands By Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish
38. The Ickabog By J.K. Rowling
39. The Book of Koli By M.R. Carey
Long Book Challenge 500 Plus Pages1. Threat From The Sea By Mel Odom
2. David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
3. Mary Chestnut's Civil War By Mary Boykin Miller Chestnut
4. Les Miserables By Victor Hugo
5. Don Quixote By Miguel de Cervantes
6. The Count Of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
7. 2666 By Robert Balano
8. The Children's Book By A.S. Byatt
9. London By Edward Rutherford
10. Anna Karenina By Leo Tolstoy
11. The Mists of Avalon By Marion Zimmer Bradley
12. The Hour I First Believed By Wally Lamb
13. Ulysses By James Joyce
14. Skippy Dies By Paul Murray
15. Under The Dome By Stephen King
16. The Blind Assassin By Margaret Atwood
17. John Adams By David McCullough
18. Night Film By Marisha Pessl
19. War and Peace By Leo Tolstoy
20. Roots By Alex Haley
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22.
23.
24.
25.
26.
27. Alexander Hamilton By Ron Chernow
28.
29.
30.
31. The Eighth Life By Nino Haratischwili
32.
33. Stranger in a Strange Land By Robert Heinlein
34.
35. My Dear Hamilton By Stephanie Dray
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37.
Books That Are Movies/ShowsAtonement- Need To Watch
Under A Tuscan Sky - Need to Watch
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald - Need to Watch
Lovely Bones - Need to Watch
The World According To Garp
Terms Of Endearment
Les Miserables
East Of Eden
Grapes Of Wrath - Need to Watch
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Need To Watch
The Reader - Need to Watch
The Rum Diary
Like Water For Chocolate
War Horse - Need to Watch
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - Need To Watch
The Ender's Game - Need To Watch
The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Need to Watch
Tracks - Need To Watch
The Secret Scripture
Far From The Maddening Crowd - Need To Watch
Child 44 - Need to Watch
True Story - Need to Watch
11/22/63 - HULU Need To Watch
The Circle - Need to Watch
The Grapes Of Wrath - Need to Watch
Fahrenheit 451 - Need to Watch
The Fellowship of the Ring - Need to Watch
The Two Towers - Need to Watch
The Shape Of Water - Need to Watch
Good Omens - May 2019 Need To Watch
Little Fire Everywhere - Hulu Need To Watch
Night Train to Lisbon - Need to Watch
Doctor Sleep - Need to Watch
Emma
Memoirs, Biographies, Autobiographies
Salinger
Manson
The End Of The World As We Know It
A Curious Man
Raising Cubby
Don't Tell Mummy
My Booky Wook
Living History
I am Ozzy
Extreme
Giving
Half Broke Horses
Books To Continue SeriesInheritance - Christopher Paolini
Dance Macabre - Laurell K. Hamilton
A Storm Of Swords - George R.R. Martin
The Chisellars - Brendan O'Carroll
Shadow of the Workhouse - Jennifer Worth
The People Of Sparks - Jeanne DuPrau
Palace Walk - Naguib Mahfouz
Night Pleasures - Sherrilyn Kenyon
Dewey's Nine Lives - Vicki Myron
A Caress of Twilight - Laurell K. Hamilton
The Year Of The Flood - Margaret Atwood
Nicolae - Tim LaHaye
The Iron Council - China Mieville
Dawn - Elie Wiesel
The Palace - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
The Good, The Bad, and The Undead - Kim Harrison
Arch Enemy - Frank Beddor
A Lion Among Men - Gregory Mcguire
Shadow Kiss - Richelle Mead
Bring Up The Bodies - Hilary Mantel
Zombie Fallout 3.5 By Mark Tufo
Jeremy Poldark - Winston Graham
A Torch Against The Night By Sabaa Tahir
The Return of the King By J.R.R. Tolkein
A Swiftly Tilting Planet By Madeleine L'Engle
World Without End By Ken Follett
Dune Messiah By Frank Herbert
Collapse By Jared Diamond
The Time Of Contempt By Andrzej Sapkowski
Finders Keepers By Stephen King
1001 BooksKafka On The Shore By Haruki Murakami
Birdsong By Sebastian Faulks
The Blind Assassin By Margaret Atwood
House Of Leaves By Mark Z. Danielewski
Cryptonomicon By Neal Stephenson
Infinite Jest By David Foster Wallace
A Fine Balance By Rohinton Mistry
Birdsong By Sebastian Faulks
The Virgin Suicides By Jeffrey Eugenides
The Wasp Factory By Iain Banks
The World According To Garp By John Irving
Wild Sargassa Sea By Jean Rhys
On The Road By Jack Kerouac
The Story Of O By Pauline Reage
The Adventures Of Augie March By Saul Bellow
Middlemarch By George Elliot
Foundation By Isaac Asimov
Invisible Man By Ralph Ellison
Gormenghast By Mervyn Peake
I, Robot By Isaac Asimov
On Human Bondage By William Somerset Magham
What Maisie Knew By Henry James
Crime And Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Anna Karenina By Leo Tolstoy
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Les Miserables By Victor Hugo
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Walden By Henry David Thoreau
The Count Of Monte Cristo By Alexander Dumas
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Don Quixote By Cervantes
Emma By Jane Austen
Jumbled Musings To Myself - So I Won't ForgetFaulkner
Yarboro
Horwitz
Rutherford
Tolstoy
Zimmerman
Zafron
Slammerkin
City At The End of Time
The People Who Eat Darkness
Ultimate Pop Sugar Challenge 20201. A book that's published in 2020 -
2. A book by a trans or nonbinary author
3. A book with a great first line - (David Copperfield By Charles Dickens)
4. A book about a book club -
5. A book set in a city that has hosted the Olympics -
6. A bildungsroman
7. The first book you touch on a shelf with your eyes closed
8. A book with an upside-down image on the cover -
9. A book with a map -
10. A book recommended by your favorite blog, vlog, podcast, or online book club - (
11. An anthology - (
12. A book that passes the Bechdel test - (2AM At The Cat's Pajamas By Marie Helene-Bertino; The Paying Guests By Sarah Waters
13. A book with the same title as a movie or TV show but is unrelated to it - (Euphoria By Lily King)_
14. A book by an author with flora or fauna in their name
15. A book about or involving social media -
16. A book that has a book on the cover -
17. A medical thriller
18. A book with a made-up language -
19. A book set in a country beginning with "C"
20. A book you picked because the title caught your attention
21. A book published the month of your birthday - (The Nickel Boys By Colson Whitehead)
22. A book about or by a woman in STEM - (Hidden Figures By Margot Lee Shetterly; The Kiss Quotient By Helen Hoang)
23. A book that won an award in 2019
24. A book on a subject you know nothing about -
25. A book with only words on the cover, no images or graphics
26. A book with a pun in the title -
27. A book featuring one of the seven deadly sins - ( The Pearl By John Steinbeck)
28. A book with a robot, cyborg, or AI character - (I, Robot By Issac Asimov)
29. A book with a bird on the cover -
30. A fiction or nonfiction book about a world leader - (Becoming By Michelle Obama)
31. A book with "gold," "silver," or "bronze" in the title -
32. A book by a WOC -
33. A book with at least a four-star rating on Goodreads
34. A book you meant to read in 2019 -
35. A book with a three-word title -
36. A book with a pink cover
37. A Western (Streets Of Laredo)
38. A book by or about a journalist-
39. Read a banned book during Banned Books Week
40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge
Advanced
1. A book written by an author in their 20s
2. A book with "20" or "twenty" in the title
3. A book with a character with a vision impairment or enhancement (a nod to 20/20 vision)
4. A book set in the 1920s
5. A book set in Japan, host of the 2020 Olympics
6. A book by an author who has written more than 20 books
7. A book with more than 20 letters in its title
8. A book published in the 20th century -
9. A book from a series with more than 20 books
10. A book with a main character in their 20s
1. Read majority of books from my bookcases.
2. Read one book a month for the PBT monthly tag.
3. Write reviews for each book for participation points.
4. Relationships, friends, enjoy life.
5. Outdoors. - Parks on Weekends, community events and places.
6. Weight Loss - Continue Journey
7. Counted Cross Stitch
8. Less Procrastinating.
9. Work on organization Pinterest, House, Purge.
10. Take advantage of community, and free classes.
11. Practice Knitting, Learn to use Sewing Machine, Quilting
12. Giving Back - Blue Ribbon Project, Volunteer
13. Crafting - Xmas, OCC, Lucy, Home
14. Yoga, Meditation
15. Writing, Drawing
16. New Hobbies